Engineering
Three Gyroscopes – Part 4
Introduction As a child I loved playing about with magnets – I still do. They can move heavy objects – such as lifting cars at a scrap yard. They can also move light (-weight!) objects [more…]
Technology
Engineering
Three Gyroscopes – Part 3
Introduction In part one we looked at how a gyroscope seems to defy gravity. This is accomplished by angular momentum. We’ll come back to that later 🙂 In part two we looked at how a [more…]
Hobbies
Agricultural Anoraks Anonymous
Growing up on a farm and later working in agriculture and related industries (on and off at least), ive spent a lot of time in Tractors, combines, telehandlers and other sundry farm machines. I freely [more…]
20th Century
‘Twas the Night before Christmas………..53 years ago
Placing the spacecraft in lunar orbit had not been easy. Compounding the difficulty, the engine firing, which would put the spacecraft in the right spot, had to happen while the spacecraft was out of contact [more…]
Authoritarianism
Apollo 13 (Revised)
I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them. Here’s the second, on that well-known danger to Life [more…]
Authoritarianism
Ice Station Zero (Revisited)
I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them. Here’s the first, which I’ve named after an Alistair [more…]
Economics
UK Electricity Bloodbath? Part Two
Last time in UK Electricity Supply Bloodbath? we concluded that, across the next decade, Britain’s positive electricity margin becomes a deficit as an older generation of nuclear and coal-fired power stations come to the end [more…]
Arts
How to Watch Cheap Television
Most of us will have a Tellybox, possibly several. I suspect a lot though will be paying through the nose for combinations of a TV package from Sky, Virgin, or other provider, add on Netflix, [more…]
Economics
UK Electricity Supply Bloodbath?
The Market A market is a place where supply meets demand, where wants and needs meet goods and services. A perfect market would be nothing other than that but, apart from thee ‘n me, nothing [more…]